To:A. A. JOFFE

Written:Written on August 3, 1918Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

      Sent to Berlin.

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      Moscow,Volume 44,

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ComradeJoffe

Everythingyou write in your recent letters is the height
of absurdity.

Topursue the “former” policy of not breaking with the
Entente after the Onega events is
ludicrous.[1]You can’t
restore chastity to a dame with a baby.

Itis also absurd to apply the term intervention or aid
to the fact that we are continuing to manoeuvre, allowing
the Germans to take what the Ententehas already taken,
thereby making more difficult and delaying the
Anglo-American-Japanese throttling of Russia.

Withoutknowing the facts and without reflecting on
them, you have fallen into error with the memorandum
and the rest. If you wish to insist on it, hand in your
resignation to the C.C. Until you do so, until the C.C. has accepted
your resignation, until a substitute has been sent to you,
and until his arrival, you, of course, as a Party member
(as you yourself write) will do your duty.

Gruss,Lenin

[1]OnJuly 31, 1918, the Entente interventionists landed troops in
Onega and seized the town.